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origin. Dorsals largely pale brown, with very fine longitudinal 

 brown lines, variously incomplete or broken as spots, dots or bars and 

 not extending on anterior half of spinous dorsal, which neutral brown 

 of deep shade; round large black blotch on second and third mem- 

 branes of spinous dorsal. Anals pale like soft dorsal, with 4 complete 

 longitudinal brown lines, outermost marginal. Caudal uniformly 

 pale yellowish-brown. Paired fins gray brown, ventrals little deeper. 

 Known only from the East Indies. Our examples differ slightly 

 from Bleeker's figure in the somewhat dark postocular blotch. 



13361. Sablayan, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length, 98 mm. 



19191. Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 190,9. Length, 123 mm. [1917.] 



HALICHOERES HARTZFELDII (Bleeker) 



Julis {Halichoeres) hartzfeldii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 3, 



1852, p. 563. Amboina. 

 Halichoeres hartzfeldi Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 123, 



pi. 35, fig. 4 (Bali, Celebes, Ternate, Bum, Amboina). 

 Platyglossus hartzfeldii Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, 



p. 157 (East Indies). 

 Choerojulis hartzfeldi Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 397 



(Larentuka, Flores). 

 Halichoeres hartzfeldii Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, vol. 12» 



1904, p. 537 (Padang, Sumatra). 



Depth 3^ to 33^; head 3 to 3^; width 2^ to 2%. Snout 2^^ to 

 3K; eye 53^ to 6%, 1^ to 23/^ in snout, !}{ to 114 in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches ^ to J^ to eye, 3% to 3^ in head; interorbital 4 3^, 

 convexly elevated. Gill rakers 7+ 13, lanceolate. 



Scales in lateral line 20 or 21, 5 or 6 + 1 ; 4 or 5 scales above lateral 

 line, 9 or 10 below, 15 predorsal; scales on breast, predorsal and 

 caudal base small. Scales with 41 to 43 basal striae, apical 28 to 

 34 obsolete; circuli fine. 



D. VII to IX, 10, I or 11, I, third spine 3% to 43^ in head, first 

 ray 2% to 33^; A. Ill, 10, i or 11, i, third spine 4 to 4 3^, first ray 

 2% to 2%; caudal 1^^ to 1%, truncate, convex behind; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral 13^ to 1%; ventral 2 to 23/8- 



Body pale brown generally, little lighter below. Gray band from 

 side of snout tip to eye, then postocular across opercle above and 

 continued broadly along side of belly to caudal base; its lower edge 

 above anal front with 2 or 3 short extensions downward. Gray 

 band crosses mandible at end of maxillary and extends to eye below. 

 Gray blotch at articulation of mandible and another on lower part of 

 opercle on side of head below. Gray band obliquely down from 

 before pectoral origin toward vent. Iris yellowish. Dorsals pale 

 brown, with narrow grayish median and submarginal parallel bands 

 and row of grayish basal spots. Anals pale brown, basal half broadly 

 grayish and median pale narrow longitudinal band, with narrow 



